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Science 10 August 2001:
Vol. 293. no. 5532, p. 1033
DOI: 10.1126/science.293.5532.1033a
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MARINE SCIENCE:
Mideast Pirates Give Oceanographers Pause

David Malakoff

Two U.S. research institutions have confirmed to Science that they are stepping up security aboard research vessels plying certain Middle Eastern waters in response to growing piracy and terrorism. Officials at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts and Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, New York, say they have hired shipboard "security consultants" to deter high-seas attacks.

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